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Hammer dressed stone hatchets in the Lake Eyre Basin
Author(s) -
Tibbett Kevin
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
archaeology in oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1834-4453
pISSN - 0728-4896
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2003.tb00519.x
Subject(s) - hammer , structural basin , archaeology , enhanced data rates for gsm evolution , geology , art , geography , geomorphology , engineering , mechanical engineering , telecommunications
Examination of 137 edge ground stone hatchets from the Lake Eyre Basin suggested that as distance from the source increases the artefacts were more intensively reduced by hammer dressing. By reducing the thickness of the hatchet with hammer dressing an acute edge angle can be maintained as resharpening ingresses towards the original thicker centre of the hatchet. I hypothesise that hammer dressing is a curation practice to extend the use‐life of hatchets.